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Pediatric Supracondylar Fractures

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Arun Shanbhag

Samantha Spencer, MD is a pediatric orthopaedist at Children’s Hospital, Boston, specializing in trauma, lower extremity, vascular anomalies, osteogenesis imperfecta and skeletal dysplasias. Pediatric supracondylar fractures are the most common elbow fractures in children. Approximately 7-10% of supracondylar fractures and up to 50% of severely displaced Type III supracondylar fractures present with a neurologic injury: [...]

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Fractures of the Distal Humerus

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Arun Shanbhag

Jesse Jupiter, MD is a Hand & Upper Extremity Orthopaedic Surgeon, at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Fractures of the distal end of the humerus, while relatively uncommon, continue to stimulate discussion as to the optimal method of treatment. Unfortunately, there are relatively few Level I or even Level II studies to guide the fracture surgeon.1 [...]

Filed under: Elbow, Joint Replacement, Physician Education, Trauma, Trauma Rounds | Tagged: , | 1 Comment »

Intra-articular Distal Radius Fractures

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Arun Shanbhag

Brandon Earp, MD, is an Hand & Upper Extremity Surgeon, at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Instructor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School. Your patient comes in after a mechanical fall onto an outstretched hand. A significant deformity of the wrist and edema are noted clinically and the patient’s discomfort is obvious. Radiographs demonstrate [...]

Filed under: Elbow, Hand, Physician Education, Trauma, Trauma Rounds, Wrist | Tagged: , , , , , | 2 Comments »

Delivering Allograft Bone Chips

Posted on January 27, 2010 by Arun Shanbhag

George Dyer, MD, is an Orthopaedic Surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Instructor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School. Here, Dr Dyer shares a useful trick for simplifying the delivery of allograft bone chips to a small graft site. The conventional method of delivering bone chips into an area to be grafted typically [...]

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